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# 1  
Old 01-06-2010
Raid0 recovery from external HD
Hi,

I have the Lacie Big Disk, which is a external hard drive enclosure in a hardware RAID0 array of 2x250GB disks. The RAID controller seems to have died, leaving me with 2 working hard drives but no way to get the data. I tried hooking the drives up to a windows machine and using Raid Reconstructor, but I can't find the starting sector and of course, they want me to shell out an additional $299 to find it.

Is there a Linux way to recreate the RAID0 parameters so I can mount the drives and pull the data off? Come on, Linux!
# 2  
Old 01-07-2010
For this to work you'd need to know the parameters the hardware controller used, or at least the stripe size used. If you can get that it might be possible using dd to create a complete image, and use that to start reconstructing your data.
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Old 01-12-2010
Is there any way to extrapolate the RAID0 information?
# 4  
Old 01-20-2010
did your disks get detect individually? if yes, did you try with mdadm?
# 5  
Old 01-26-2010
I'm not too familar with Linux RAID. With what options would I run the mdadm?
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